People v. Congleton’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 1985 · most notably People v. Goldenson (1888), State v. Spotted Hawk (1899)
23 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on People v. Davidson · People v. Jacobs · People v. Fisher · Bassett v. Haines
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not true that in such cases the weapon becomes at once a necessary ingredient of the crime, as argued by counsel, but the nature of the weapon as being deadly or otherwise, is alone important; and it is essential to aver it in some appropriate way to have been deadly in its character.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Murat
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.